Air and Your Health - Clean Air Is Vital to Your Health

Normal breathing indoors and outside may also involve inhaling PCBs, soot, ozone, formaldehyde, radon, radiation, or asbestos fibrils, among other substances. This book is important reading for everyone who wants to know how air quality relates to health and how it can be improved in their personal environments.

About the author

Beatrice Trum Hunter has written more than 30 books on food issues, including whole foods, food adulteration, and aditives. Her most recent books include The Whole Foods Primer, Probiotic Foods for Good Health, and Infectious Connections.

Summary

Most people have no idea that they arent breathing in only oxygen when they inhale. Outside, they may be inhaling volatile organic compounds from car exhausts, benzene, solvents, wood smoke, dust particles, soot and ozone. Inside, they may be inhaling formaldehyde, radon, radiation, or asbestos fibres. This book is important reading for everybody who wants to know how air quality relates to health and how it can be improved in their personal environments.

Product details

• Authors: Beatrice Trum Hunter
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.05.2004
• EAN: 9781591200574
• ISBN: 978-1-59120-057-4
• No. of pages: 137
• Dimensions: 109 mm x 171 mm x 10 mm
• Weight: 73 g
• Series: Basic Health Guides
• Subjects: Guides > Health > Illnesses, therapies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General